Synonyms of the word

presage

• n. A warning of a future event; an omen.
• n. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
• v. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
• v. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
• v. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

augur

• n. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial…
• n. (Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.
• v. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.
• v. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.

augury

• n. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
• n. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
• n. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

auspicate

• v. To foreshow; to foretoken.
• v. To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of…
• adj. Auspicious.

bespeak

• v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
• v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
• v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
• v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
• v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
• n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

betoken

• v. To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
• v. To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.

bode

• v. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
• v. (intransitive) To foreshow something; to augur.
• n. An omen; a foreshadowing.
• n. (obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
• n. A messenger; a herald.
• n. A stop; a halting; delay.
• v. simple past tense of bide.

boding

• n. An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.
• adj. Portending, ominous.
• v. present participle of bode.

foreboding

• n. A sense of evil to come.
• n. An evil omen.
• adj. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
• v. present participle of forebode.

forecast

• v. To estimate how something will be in the future.
• v. (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
• n. An estimation of a future condition.
• n. A prediction of the weather.

foreshadow

• v. (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

foretoken

• n. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment.
• v. To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning; presage.

indicate

• v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
• v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
• v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
• v. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

omen

• n. Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future;…
• n. prophetic significance.
• v. To be an omen of.
• v. To divine or predict from omens.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

portend

• v. (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen.
• v. (transitive) To signify; to denote.

portent

• n. Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
• n. A portending; significance.
• n. Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy.

predict

• v. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge…
• v. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
• v. (intransitive) To make predictions.
• v. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
• n. (obsolete) A prediction.

prefigure

• v. To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand (often used in a Biblical context).
• v. To predict or foresee.
• n. That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.

premonition

• n. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
• n. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

presentiment

• n. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

prodigy

• n. (now rare) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
• n. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
• n. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
• n. A wonderful example of something.
• n. An extremely talented person, especially a child.

prognostic

• adj. Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.
• n. (rare, medicine) prognosis.
• n. A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
• n. A prediction of the future.
• n. One who predicts the future.

prognosticate

• v. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
• v. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

prognostication

• n. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.

sign

• n. (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
• n. A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
• n. (astrology) An astrological sign.
• n. (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity. (Note: it is improper to place a sign on the number zero).
• n. A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically,…
• n. (uncountable) Sign language in general.
• n. An omen.
• n. (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed…
• n. A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
• v. To make a mark.
• v. To make the sign of the cross.
• v. To indicate.

signal

• n. A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted…
• n. An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
• n. (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage…
• n. A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
• n. Useful information, as opposed to noise.
• n. (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate.
• adj. Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.